I needed to prep for a meeting in Seattle recently. I was flying in that morning, but my pitch wasn't until mid afternoon. I called the Fairmont, explained the situation, and I was given a room for half the day at a fraction of the price (less than half). I was told that any Fairmont will do the same if they have…

TrueCrypt also has a feature where you can set a false password that shows a faked volume.

Until Ecstasy was made illegal, it was used by marriage therapists to help couples. My SO and I like to roll once every few months just for that reason (in our home, not in a cheesy club listening to crap music — yes, that means you Skrillex).

Somewhere, Tom Cruise is reading this and saying "Wow, those Catholics really make up some weird shit..."

From that belt of red dots, it looks like the locals make up for their lack of alcohol consumption with Oxycontin consumption and in-breeding...

Wandering Carl: A person that wanders off in the midst of a crisis, and, while wandering off, creates an additional crisis.

The question is not IF man will destroy our civilization, it is a question of WHEN and HOW...

How about the fact that Tyler Kitsch can't act and his resume consists primarily of a tertiary character on a TV show that was hardly successful?

I know how to make women happy, but I choose not to. There is a HUGE difference.

Wait until a drone being piloted by some Barney Fife local cop crashes it into a commercial jet and kills a couple hundred people...

I don't worry about the Feds. My encryption just has to be strong/tricky enough to keep my wife from finding my ex-girlfriend photo stash. TrueCrypt fake password/partition to the rescue!!!

The worst book Neal Stephenson has written. Go get Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, or Diamond Age.

I'll go fire up my Hummer and obviate the need for ice breakers completely...

Of all the varied sexual activities I have ever tried, it is the only one I would describe as "over-rated"...

If accessible = boring, then "Reamde" is his most accessible book to-date...

TOO URANUS...AND BEYOND!

You can't get the anyone to rush out to buy a marginally improved version of the hardware product they already own if you don't create an artificial difference between the two virtually indistinguishable versions.

I've found that if I download my boarding pass to my smartphone and scroll down just a bit that the group assignment often isn't visible, but the bar code is. I haven't been stopped yet (mainly United).

He probably just had the leasing company buy two SL55s and then he alternated between "leasing" the two every six months.

Sexy Olive Oyl? Really?